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Title:  Ethnology and empire : languages, literature, and the making of the North American borderlands / Author:  Gunn, Robert Lawrence, author. Publisher:  New York : New York University Press, [2015] Isbn:  9781479812516 147981251X 1479872415 9781479872411 9781479842582 1479842583 9781479849055 1479849057 Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-228) and index. Url:  https://uprrp.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt15zc7tg Contents:  Philologies of race: ethnological linguistics and novelistic representation -- Empire, sign languages, and the long expedition, 1819-1821 -- John Dunn Hunter, Tecumseh, and the linguistic politics of Pan-Indianism -- Connecting borderlands: Native networks and the Fredonian rebellion -- John Russell Bartlett's literary borderlands: Ethnology, the U.S.-Mexico war, and the United States Boundary Survey -- Indian passports. Series:  America and the Long 19th Century America and the long 19th century. Description:  1 online resource (xiii, 241 pages) : illustrations, maps Notes:  English. Summary:  Ethnology and Empire tells stories about words and ideas, and ideas about words that developed in concert with shifting conceptions about Native peoples and western spaces in the nineteenth-century United States. Contextualizing the emergence of Native American linguistics as both a professionalized research discipline and as popular literary concern of American culture prior to the U.S.-Mexico War, Robert Lawrence Gunn reveals the manner in which relays between the developing research practices of ethnology, works of fiction, autobiography, travel narratives, Native oratory, and sign languages gave imaginative shape to imperial activity in the western borderlands. In literary and performative settings that range from the U.S./Mexico borderlands to the Great Lakes region of Tecumseh's Pan-Indian Confederacy and the hallowed halls of learned societies in New York and Philadelphia, Ethnology and Empire models an interdisciplinary approach to networks of peoples, spaces, and communication practices that transformed the boundaries of U.S. empire through a transnational and scientific archive. Emphasizing the culturally transformative impacts western expansionism and Indian Removal, Ethnology and Empire reimagines U.S. literary and cultural production for future conceptions of hemispheric American literatures. Lccn:  2015015615 Add Titles:  Languages, literature, and the making of the North American borderlands Subject:  Anthropological linguistics -- North America -- History -- 19th century. Indians of North America -- Languages Borderlands -- North America -- History -- 19th century. Ethnology -- North America -- History -- 19th century. United States -- Territorial expansion -- Social aspects. Type:  text txt Media Type:  computer c Carrier Type:  online resource cr   Copy/Holding information No Item Information Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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